What is direct democracy?

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Direct democracy is where the citizens directly influence the decisions of the government.

This is compared to indirect democracy (which is what the US has) where the people elect representatives who represent their interests in the decisions of goverment.Direct democracy is a form of democracy. This form is people decide
policy initiatives directly.

In a direct democracy , every single member of the group hasan equal say in every single decision. This is not workable on aday to day basis for large groups. In a represent…ativedemocracy , people elect representatives , who vote on theissues. Representative democracy is the basis of constitutionaldemocracy . Representatives are chosen by the people toact in their best interest, not necessarily to vote the way thepeople want them to in every circumstance. Direct democracy is verydifficult to maintain when a population becomes too large. Some societies operate with a combination of both types ofdemocracy. For example, in some countries, such as France,Switzerland and the Republic of Ireland, some issues, for example,changes to the constitution, can be decided by a popular vote onthat specific issue. In some of the small Swiss cantons (states)such as Glarus, all citizens are entitled to attend an annualmeeting which votes retrospectively on the laws passed during thepreceding year by their representatives. and also credit to theperson who last posted this

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Democracy is a system of government owned and controlled by the will of the majority of the governed. The will of the people of a democracy would be the supreme la…w of their land. Unless the people officially choose to endow "representatives" with their rightful power to choose their destiny, any true democracy would necessarily be a direct democracy, because the true will of the majority of the people could only be acertained from a publicly owned, votable forum system capable of perpetually establishing truth about every issue, gradually and peacefully, in real time..
There has never been a full-fledged democracy on Earth, for two main reasons. First, humanity only recently developed the computative, interactive and connective technology to define the true will of a population, a task that couldn't be done by horseback. And secondly, the small group (now the CFR) who enjoyed wielding Our power for generations has made a science of convincing us that We hold the power, in order to prevent losing their illegal reign over us and all we produce and own. But, it's obvious to all that our majority never voted for our current conditions of corrupt government, perpetual war, war profiteering, hunger, starvation, officially acceptable genocide, widening cultural divides, ever-widening gap between the rich and poor or ecological devastation of proportions that now threaten our extinction ~ myseries that none of us ever wanted ~ that could only benefit a psychologically unstable few..
Countries which have been deceptively mislabeled as democracies by that tiny minority have equally tiny "degrees" or "aspects" of democracy: the vote. Some call them demockery, because they make a mockery of the very concept of democracy. It's a generational global deception of enormous magnitude. Having ballot boxes does not make a country a democracy. And, negative reality is a natural product of demockery..
Direct democracy would be a political system which is owned and "directly" controlled by those it governs. Those affected by and/or with special knowledge of a particular public issue would raise the issue, then participate in the formulation of the most popular solution to that issue. Since the vast majority of people want peace and prosperity, that is what a direct democracy would produce..
"Representative democracy" is a either just a deceptive misnomer or the name of a form of government yet to exist. America is a representative republic: Not a democracy by definition, as you were taught in public school..
So, a representative democracy would require that each representative have a local votable forum system in which only his or her constituents could participate.

Most of the democracies are indirect or representative democracies,because citizens elect representatives who then go to the parliament and represent them and their interests.… In a direct democracy every citizen who has the right to vote goes to the parliament and takes part in the law-making process personally. One of the example for the latter one can be the ancient Athens where citizens (free male Athenian citizens over 20) had the right to take part in the Assembly.

It is a representative democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens vote directly on issues concerning the community, while in a representative democracy, the citizens vote on p…eople to represent them in making the decisions.

In Direct Democracy, the people vote on every issue. In Representative Democracy, the people vote for representatives, who then vote on every issue. Nearly all democracies …are representative. Although this means representatives may not always represent the will of the people, the problem with asking the public to vote on every issue is that they probably wouldn't bother. Forms of direct democracy you often see are referendums (when the government asks people to vote on an issue). Also, two cantons of Switzerland have an "Open Parliament" every year, where people are invited to discuss and vote on issues. Both also have a conventional elected assembly.

The US has a representative democracy because, at the time the Constitution was framed, it was impracticable to have a direct democracy. Additionally, the Founding Fathers wer…e generally skeptical of democracies (since they understood it differently than we did) and feared the tyranny of the majority. They believed a representative democracy would temper the passions of the masses.